Title

Workers taking mucilaged sheets of postage stamps from the drying box in the gumming..., c1895. Creator: Frances Benjamin Johnston.

Caption

Workers taking mucilaged sheets of postage stamps from the drying box in the gumming and drying room of the Stamp Division at the Bureau of Engraving & Printing, c1895.

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM22B03_213

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NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

64,2Mb (9,4Mb) / 17,8in x 14,0in / 5325 x 4212 (300dpi)

Keywords

female women woman people library group work office employment job communication communications historical sitting worker country desk occupation Washington Washington DC District of Columbia location century profession employee supervisor photograph furniture concept drying photo seated B&W washington d.c. Library of Congress United States of America postal service postage stamp 19th century black & white black and white B W nineteenth century postage stamps workers American history historic America USA TGN photograph portrait united states Congressional Library Heritage Art Frances Benjamin Johnston Johnston Frances Benjamin Frances Johnston Frances B. Johnston 19th-century still image Bureau of Engraving & Printing FB Johnston Cyanotypes 1890-1900. gmgpc